Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-04-04
persons and particulaFS.

III NAAANft-
Mrs. Lowry and Lottie spent several
days last week in Milwaukee.
Rev. R. Pengilly returned last Thurs
day evening from Madison.
Mr.. c. b. Stowell left for his home in
Hudson, Mich. last Friday morning.
w ID. Ascough, of North Andover,
was caller last Friday.
Mr.. j. C. Scott, of Patch Grove, our
former surveyor, was in town Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oswald went to Fenni-
more Saturday morning, to sec Mr..
Oswald's mother who is quite ill.
Adolph Schreiner has returned from
Chicago where he has been spending
some weeks buying spring goods.
A ring with four keys attached. two
of them brass has been found and left
at this office for the owner when he
calls for it.
w. j. Dyer's famous horse, Mambri-
no Swigert, is in Mineral Point this sea-
son. John Francis gives Dyer $1,000
for him for one season.
George Budd returned from the
northern part of the state last week and
started again on Thursday for Sioux
Falls, Oak He is in the employ of q
collecting firm in Milwaukee.
The fine guitar, drawn by numbers at
Mrs. Cramers confectionery store last
Saturday night, was carried off by DR..
Barber's genial drug clerk, Mr.. Emile
Speigleberg.
Dexter Angus has purchased the i'm
ported Clydesdale stallion, "Jack-of-
Trumps," of Harry Beetham. Jack"
has been re-christned and now bears
the name "Buteman." Breeders of
draft hor'es should look the horse over,
and read the posters that will be issu ed
from our Job rooms this week.
Hiram Sherman and Harry Patch,
carpenters, go to Patch Grove to-day
to erect house for Mr.. j. j. Humph-
rey. The house is to be erected on Nh.
Humphreys farm, one mile east of the
village, and will cost $4,000 or $4,000
when completed Mr.. Sherman will
return to Lancaster to deliver his large
orders of Vermont maple sugar.
A guest at one of our principal no.
tells, who halls from the rural districts,
ate dinner the other day that would
give an ostrich the dyspepsia. He OBJ
served tho other guests eating soup
from bouls, and seeing boul of brown
gravy near his plate, he thought that it
was his soup Accordingly he crum-
bled in lot of crackers and ate the
whole dish of gravy, half of which was
pure grease; and "he went off all
right" too. like the man the o. w. G.
told of.
From copy of the Galloway Standary
published at Galloway, Custer county,
Nebraska, we find the following per-
sonal: MIR. George l.. Stevens arrived
Tuesday evening with his household
effects, and informed US that he had
several carloads of lumber on the road
which would arrive as fast as the team
sters can haul it from Cozad. He
brought with him fine team of horses
from Wisconsin. Lumber can here
after be had as cheap as at any point
along the railroad. Mr. Stevens being
q courteous gentleman we may say with
feeling of pride that our town has
been greatly benefited by his locating
here.
Mrs VIM Hoffman and her daughter
of jamestown have been spending the
past week at Mr. Henry Hoffman's in
Lancaster.
Judge Clementson aud court reporter
Orion returned last Thursday from Iowa
county where they have been attending
court. Next week they go to Richland
Center.
The band gave a line open air con-
cert Saturday night
Prof. d. Needham and family of East
Dubuque are visiting at Mr.. Abrams
Miss Flo Hill, accompanied by her
friend Miss Moers arrived from Milwau-